STEP 6 ROUND-UPS
SOUTH WEST PENINSULA
FALMOUTH TOWN are four points clear at the top of the Premier Division after their 3-1 win over Torpoint Athletic at Bickland Park.
Matt Buchan gave Town the lead on 26 minutes, which was doubled by Martyn Duff on the stroke of half-time.
Sam Morgan’s penalty gave the visitors hope with 15 minutes remaining, only for Jack Bowyer to seal things five minutes into stoppage time.
Plymouth Argyle Reserves had reduced Falmouth’s lead to one point on Friday, as they beat Camelford 3-0.
Former Everton trainee Calum Dyson scored a brace for the Pilgrims’ second string, with ex-Scunthorpe United and Rochdale defender Niall Canavan bagging their third.
Rikki Shepherd was twice on target in Millbrook’s dominant 4-1 win at Sticker. Tom Payne and an own goal completed the Brook’s quartet, with Tyler Cheshire responding for the bottom place hosts.
Bodmin Town racked up an even more impressive scoreline on Friday, seeing off Ivybridge Town 6-1.
Stuart Bowker hit a hat-trick after Ryan Oxley scored the Black & Ambers’ first two goals.
CHRIS DICKENS
EAST MIDLANDS
BRAD SCARD and Matt Harris each scored twice as Graham Street Prims moved top for the second time in the space of a week.
Prims, who scaled the heights in midweek for the first time in their history before being topped by Sherwood, regained top spot on goal difference thanks to a 7-0 defeat of lowly Arnold.
Dominic Wilkinson, George Lynam and Kurt Dallison also scored in the rout.
There was drama both during and after Heanor’s 3-0 defeat of Barrow Town.
The Lions led through Corey Bowler and Jamie Sleigh, but saw red cards for Oliver Roome and Bowler in the 73rd and 79th minutes before Jordan Ball added a third in stoppage time.
After the match, the Lions’ Twitter feed announced that manager Dan Martin had resigned. NAT SYLVESTER
WEST MIDLANDS REGIONAL
BILSTON TOWN COMMUNITY fell just short of bagging a first point of the season, despite a rousing comeback in their 3-2 defeat at home to Smethwick Rangers.
The Queen Street outfit looked doomed early in the second half of the Premier Division’s only match of the day when close-range finishes from Lewis Riley-Stewart and Cameron Philip handed Rangers a two-goal lead.
Shaikul Islam’s 20-yard lob sailed over Bilston keeper Mark Brack to put the cap on what seemed a routine victory for Smethwick, only for the tables to turn in the final ten minutes.
Randane Larmond set pulses racing by tucking in from close range, with debutant striker Ashanti Pryce closing the gap to one during the last knockings.